January 4, 2024
A new study on neuroendocrine dysfunction upon autoimmune demyelination was published today in the Journal of Neuroinflammation. Check the Publications page for more details.
December 8, 2023
A new study describing the MHC locus DNA methylation patterns in MS patients was published today in Frontiers of Neurology. Check the Publications page for more details.
December 1, 2023
A new study describing a method to quantify autoreactive antibodies in EAE mice was published today in Journal of Visualized Experiments. Check the Publications page for more details.
March 30, 2023
A new study on the use of epigenetic data to identify MS risk genes was published today in Communications Biology. Check the Publications page for more details.
February 18, 2023
The Didonna Lab was awarded an R03 grant. We are grateful to the NIH for supporting our research.
January 22, 2023
A new study on the non-coding transcriptome regulated by ataxin-1 in B cells was published today in Immunology & Cell Biology. Check the Publications page for more details.
January 19, 2023
Alexandra Puckett, Honors College undergrad at ECU, started volunteering in the lab. Welcome, Alexandra!
October 21, 2022
Congratulations to Kristy for receiving an URCA Fellowship from ECU to support her research project on tau. Great job, Kristy!
October 13, 2022
A proposal in collaboration with Dr. Mofrad at UC Berkeley has been selected as one of the 2022-23 funded pilot projects within the the Stanford Program for Integrated Neuroscience Technologies (SPrINT).
August 22, 2022
Kristy Lau, undergrad student at ECU, officially joined the lab within the Neuroscience undergrad program. Welcome Kristy!
July 28, 2022
A new study on the epigenetic regulation of ATXN1 in MS was published today on the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. Check the Publications page for more details.
June 27, 2022
Jonathan Carver officially started his position as Research Specialist in the Didonna Lab. Welcome John!
June 6, 2022
Austin Lowery, undergrad student at Georgia Southern University, will spend the summer in the lab to learn about neuroimmunology research and immunohistochemistry. Welcome Austin!
June 2, 2022
Dr. Didonna was interviewed on the topic "The role of B cells in MS pathophysiology" for the new episodes of NeuroFrontiers via ReachMD. Click here
​
May 30, 2022
The Didonna Lab was awarded the Wooten Family Initiative for Brain Health 2022 Grant. We are grateful to the Wooten Family for supporting our research.
March 07, 2022
A new study on MS polygenic risk scores was published today in Brain. Check the Publications page for more details.
February 27, 2022
Two new studies were published today on tau methylation and HLA-DRA. Check the Publications page for more details.
December 21, 2021
A new study on the role of epigenetic regulation in MS was published today in PNAS. Check the Publications page for more details.
December 08, 2021
A new study on DYT6 was published today in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. Check the Publications page for more details
November 30, 2021
Today the Didonna Lab officially opens at ECU Brody School of Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology!